Problem solving survey

preliminary results

4,788 responses with an overall completion rate of 54.9%

Respondents

Respondents were mostly officers

Respondents likely to be from response, CID or neighbourhood

Respondents might be older, more likely to be women

Number of respondents varied substantially across forces

Opinions on problem solving

Practice of problem solving

Examples of problem solving

964 responses include an example of problem solving

Drug dealing and drug taking in a beauty spot
Youths causing problems in a local takeaway/food establishment
Anti social behaviour on a town centre.
ASB with youths congregating around a fast food establishment
ASB and low level crime
Modern Day Slavery and the true picture in Lancashire (to capture and evidence this and look much wider than the typical sexual exploitation scenario that officers associate with MDS).
creation of multi agency tasking/problem solving hubs in all five local authority areas of force

single words word pairs word triplets
asb anti social anti social behaviour
drug social behaviour off road bikes
social drug dealing mental health issues
dealing mental health night time economy
anti county lines with mental health
demand neighbour dispute burglaries in a
health domestic abuse crime and disorder
mental knife crime drug use and
violence drug supply mental health and
dispute off road a group of

Most of the examples were considered successful

How would you describe the results of this project? cases
very successful 376
somewhat successful 355
mixed 122
slightly successful 74
not at all successful 37